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Literary Narrative In I Stand Here Writing By Nancy Summers

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I believe that “I Stand Here Writing” by Nancy Summers constitutes as a literary narrative. The strongest evidence is Summers’s use of personal stories which are scattered throughout the text. She includes a couple stories about her schooling, life as a mother, and her career as a teacher. In fact, Summers uses these narratives to convey a deeper message about the skill of writing. The best example of this is when Summers expresses how she came to love the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson and how she used Emerson’s ideas to set the tone for the rest of the passage. Summers has such an affection for Emerson 's writings because it showed her that writing is a process of creating new ideas, rather than recycling old ones. Summers uses the image

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